The 2024 European Billiards and Snooker Affiliation (EBSA) European Championships have been staged earlier this month in Albufeira, Portugal with champions being topped throughout seven particular person and staff occasions.
Staged from 10-23 October on the Vidimar Lodge & Resort, the occasion noticed a whole lot of rivals embark on the Algarve for Seniors Particular person & Staff, Ladies’s Particular person & Staff, Males’s Staff, 6-red and Shoot Out tournaments.
Moreover, for the primary time ever the World Incapacity Billiards & Snooker (WDBS) European Incapacity Snooker Championship ran alongside the championships from 18-23 October.
Implausible 4 for England
Gamers from England extremely received a quartet of titles in a single day on the EBSA European Championships as Craig Steadman, Lee Stephens, Rebecca Kenna and Tessa Davidson have been profitable within the Seniors and Ladies’s competitions.
England have been dominant within the particular person European Seniors Championship, with three of the 4 semi-finalists representing the nation, as Steadman defeated compatriot Wayne Brown 5-4 within the remaining to safe the title and a spot within the 2025 World Seniors Championship on the Crucible Theatre – ten years on from dealing with Ronnie O’Sullivan at snooker’s most iconic venue.
Later that night, Steadman adopted up his particular person glory with success within the European Seniors Staff Championship alongside former English Seniors champion Lee Stephens.
A whitewash victory over the Wales staff of Darren Morgan and Philip Williams noticed Steadman and Stephens ebook their place within the title match, the place they have been as soon as once more in ruthless type as they overcame Northern Eire’s Sean Grey and Anthony Heaney by the identical scoreline to finish a European Seniors double.
Within the European Ladies’s Championship, Kenna dropped simply two frames within the knockout phases – defeating Ewelina Piślewska, former World Championship runner-up Wendy Jans and Diana Stateczny to succeed in the ultimate the place she overcame Latvia’s Anna Prysazhnuka 4-1 to win the celebrated trophy.
Kenna had little time to have a good time her particular person victory earlier than returning for the European Ladies’s Staff Championship remaining, the place her and Tessa Davidson took on the Portugal staff of Vania Franco and Sara Rocha.
It was a hard-fought affair towards the house nation, however Kenna and Davidson have been in the end capable of recover from the road in a deciding body to finish a memorable double within the European Ladies’s Championship occasions.
Ukraine on the Double
Former skilled Iulian Boiko was in beautiful type in Albufeira as he received each the European Shoot Out Championship and, alongside compatriot Denys Khmelevskyi, the European Males’s Staff Championship for Ukraine.
Within the Shoot Out occasion, the place matches have been participant over a single timed body, Boiko defeated Viktors Jengovatovs, Maciej Kusak, Alex Borg and Nicolas Mortreux to succeed in the ultimate.
Craig Steadman, who had received the European Seniors and European Seniors Staff titles already earlier within the week, was his opponent within the remaining however Boiko denied him a hat-trick of trophies by profitable the title match by a scoreline of 49-5.
Boiko and Khmelevskyi then adopted this success up on the ultimate day of the competitors by profitable the European Males’s Staff Championship.
Having defeated fellow countrymen Anton Kazakov and Mykhailo Larkov within the final 16, the Ukrainian duo them whitewashed groups from Malta and Poland to arrange a remaining assembly with Malta’s Aaron Busuttil and Chris Peplow.
The 2 groups went blow for blow within the remaining, with neither ever main by greater than a single body, however Boiko and Khmelevskyi have been capable of earn the win in a remaining body to safe victory for his or her nation.
Nuessle Earns Victory for Austria
Austrian nationwide champion Florian Nuessle earned victory on the European Championships by defeating Stuart Watson 5-3 within the remaining of the 6-red occasion.
The knockout phases noticed Nuessle decide up victories over Gregory Cooke and Gary Milne, earlier than a formidable whitewash win over WPBSA Q Tour Europe occasion winner Andres Petrov noticed Nuessle attain the semi-finals.
One other whitewash victory, this time over Iulian Boiko of Ukraine, noticed Nuessle attain the title match the place he would face Watson after the Englishman defeated fellow countryman Harvey Chandler within the semi-finals.
Watson led 2-0 and 3-1 within the remaining with assist from breaks of 57, 45 and 45 however Nuessle rallied to win 4 consecutive frames and are available away a 5-3 victor in Portugal.
Historic European Incapacity Snooker Championship Debuts
WDBS staged the primary ever European Incapacity Snooker Championship alongside the EBSA European Championship from 18-23 October with champions topped throughout six classification teams.
The historic first ever staging of the occasion noticed 40 cueists from six nations competing throughout Wheelchair, Ambulant, Mental, Visible and Deaf classifications within the five-day competitors.
Dave Beaumont (Group 1+2), Andy Lam (Group 3), Carl Gibson (Group 4), Dave Bolton (Group 5), Matthew Haslam (Group 6) and Luke Drennan (Group 7-8) have been topped the primary ever European Incapacity champions throughout a closing ceremony attended by WDBS Chairman Nigel Mawer QPM, EBSA President Maxime Cassis and FBP President Ricardo Salgado.
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